This book describes valuation as an exercise in financial statement analysis. Students learn to view a firm through its financial statements and to carry out the appropriate financial statement analysis to value the firm's debt and equity. The book takes an activist approach to investing, showing how the analyst challenges the current market price of a share by analyzing the fundamentals. With a careful assessment of accounting quality, accounting comes to life as it is integrated with the modern theory of finance to develop practical analysis and valuation tools for active investing.

　　Key features

　　1.Negotiating with Mr. Market: This edition emphasizes the role of financial statement analysis in "negotiating with Mr. Market" over the price to pay for securities (to use the words of Benjamin Graham). Students will be able to understand how earnings forecasts relate to value, reverse engineer the market price to understand the forecast that Mr. Market is making, and then challenge that forecast with sound financial statement analysis.

　　2.Applied Analysis to Evaluating Underpricing: With the bubble valuations of the 1990s as a backdrop, earlier editions emphasized the danger of buying overpriced shares. With multiples falling below historical benchmarks during the credit crisis of the fall of 2008, this edition applies the same analysis to evaluating underpricing.

　　3.Comprehensive End-of-Chapter Material: Exercises apply methods covered in the chapter and are divided into Drill Exercises and Applications. Drill Exercises are simple and straightforward, and serve to ease the student into the material, while Applications help students to apply a concept theyre learning to real business practice. Other EOC material includes concept question that reinforce the thinking in the chapter and mini-cases which are designed for classroom discussion. These exercises use real-world companies to make different points in different parts of the book.

　　4.Module sections of the text: Each text part is a distinct module, allowing the parts to be taught out of order without inconveniencing the instructor.

　　5.Pedagogical features: Pedagogical features include chapter-opening flow charts, the Analyst's Checklist, and the Analyst's Toolkit. The Web Connection box at the end of each chapter directs students to features on the web page for that chapter, including accounting material. Select end-of-chapter exercises incorporate the Building Your Own Analysis valuation tool on the website.

作者简介

Stephen Penman

　　现职：Stephen Penman is the George O. May Professor and the Morgan Stanley Research Scholar in the Graduate School of Business, Columbia University. He also serves as co-director of Columbia's Center for Excellence in Accounting and Security Analysis.

Ch1 Introduction to Investing and Valuation
Ch2 Introduction to the Financial Statements

PART I: FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND VALUATION
Ch3 How Financial Statements Are Used in Valuation
Ch4 Cash Accounting, Accrual Accounting, and Discounted Cash Flow Valuation
Ch5 Accrual Accounting and Valuation: Pricing Book Values
Ch6 Accrual Accounting and Valuation: Pricing Earnings

PART II: THE ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
Ch7 Viewing the Business Through the Financial Statements
Ch8 The Analysis of the Statement of Shareholders' Equity
Ch9 The Analysis of the Balance Sheet and Income Statement
Ch10 The Analysis of the Cash Flow Statement
Ch11 The Analysis of Profitability
Ch12 The Analysis of Growth and Sustainable Earnings

PART III: FORECASTING AND VALUATION ANALYSIS
Ch13 The Value of Operations and the Evaluation of Enterprise Price-to-Book Ratios and Price-Earnings Ratios
Ch14 Anchoring on the Financial Statements: Simple Forecasting and Simple Valuation
Ch15 Full-Information Forecasting, Valuation, and Business Strategy Analysis

PART IV: ACCOUNTING ANALYSIS AND VALUATION
Ch16 Creating Accounting Value and Economic Value
Ch17 Analysis of the Quality of Financial Statements

PART V: THE ANALYSIS OF RISK AND RETURN
Ch18 The Analysis of Equity Risk and Return
Ch19 The Analysis of Credit Risk and Return